Drug Reduces Heart Attack, Death Rates In Patients With Unstable Angina
...ents. A smaller, tightly controlled study provides clearer data, but thefindings cannot be generalized to large and diverse populations. "Our trial model offers the most realistic sense of what kind oftreatment effect you would see in the clinical setting, where each doctor has adifferent approach t...University Of Florida Researchers Hope To Ease Asthma Pains And Provide A Sigh Of Relief
...d how drugs stick to this receptor. "With a clearer picture of that process, researchers can design betterasthma drugs making them avoid receptors not associated with asthma andpotentially reduce drug side effects," Harrison said. Richards said one of the strengths of UF's research is the coll......B prototype provides images that are significantly clearer than canbe produced by any current system, and may allow the viewing of even the tiniestblood vessels in the circulation system, Stephen Rudin, Ph.D., UB professor ofradiology and physics, reported here today (Dec. 2, 1998). The prototype andits ima...Soy May Decrease Cancer Risks, Wake Forest Researcher Says
...gen. "The benefit of soy phytoestrogens is clearer for dietary exposuresearly in life and for premenopausal women," Cline said. "The benefit for olderwomen and breast cancer survivors remains to be determined." Cline's study was supported both by the Department of the Army and theNational Ins...Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...f data analysis called curve estimation to produce clearer pictures of howhealth changes over time. Standard statistical methods provide just a snapshot of health conditions at asingle point in time. In the growth study, for example, standard methods couldhave told researchers the average weight, exactly tw...Space Research May Accelerate Development Of Flu-Fighting Drug
...stals of the influenza virus, we were ableto get a clearer picture of the virus' structure," said DeLucas. "NASA'ssupport for this research project probably saved considerable time needed todevelop this new drug." Called "structure-based drug design," this research focuses on howmolecules of a virus...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...ument quantifies a person's QOL and should offer a clearer view ofhow well the treatment of IBS is progressing, according to Dr. Douglas A.Drossman, professor of medicine and co-director of the UNC Center forFunctional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders. "You can't just look at disease measures when t...Quality Parenting Helps Kids Cope With Inner-City Stress
...rly life experiences," Wyman and colleaguessay. "A clearer understanding of how parents develop responsive parentingattitudes is important both for shedding light on life-span development andinforming interventions designed to enhance effective caregiving." The results of the study are reported in the curren...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...d-Body Interaction. The center's goal is to gain a clearer understanding ofhow emotions are encoded in the brain and then influence other body systems thataffect health, according to Richard J. Davidson, Vilas Professor of Psychologyand Psychiatry, who will serve as center director. The center builds upon se...'HARP MRI' provides faster, clear heart pictures
...uscles and then tracks their movements, produces a clearer picture. "An MRIprovides better resolution," he says. "You can see details better. With MRItagging, you can see what's going on within the walls of a heart muscle. It canimage the way the muscle is working. There's no other technology that can dothat...Strain makes for stronger engineered tissues
...l stimuli as well. But the U-Mresearch provides a clearer understanding of exactly how mechanical stimulationleads to increased strength. "The major contribution of this paper is that it demonstrates an interactionbetween the chemistry and the mechanics," Mooney explains. "It was not a greatleap on our par...12 UNC institutions to examine how N.C. counties handle welfare reform
...ies here or in other states." The goal will be a clearer picture of the evolving relationships between the state and its counties, he said. Participating faculty hope to attract further funding so they will be able to track changes in the effects of welfare reform over time, Wright said. What the team le...UCSD researcher wins grant to study colon cancer in African-Americans
..." said Carethers. "In addition, we hope to gain a clearer understanding of tumor formation that will benefit all patients." Every year, approximately 149,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and about 56,000 people die of the disease. It is the second most common cause of cancer deat...New research expands understanding of treatment for ADHD
... and could eventually provide practitioners with a clearer framework for prescribing the medication. ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in childhood. An estimated 3 to 5 percent of the general population suffers from the disorder, which is characterized by agitated behavior and an inabil......lationships must be monitored by policies that are clearer and more stringent than is the norm today," said Harvard Medical School dean Joseph B. Martin, who convened the group. The groups recommendations address inconsistencies and gaps in policies described in a series of four articles in the November 1 J...Surgeon warns that hospitals need to face the resource implications of breast reconstruction surgery
...r groups is being performed and this should give a clearer idea of the issues raised....Number of teens --primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s
...laimed." The reasons are more complex, but became clearer when Schwartz and Risman broke down the CDC data by gender. They found that while the overall rate for sexual activity among teens dropped 5.7 percent, most of the decrease was attributable to fewer boys having sex when they were 15 to 17 years old. ...Surprising findings on Medicaid kids and the ER
...are plans."" The causes behind these trends become clearer with Stanley's research, which gathered information directly and anonymously from the 422 adults who brought children to 13 ERs throughout the state in 2001. All of the children had been triaged by ER staff as low-urgency cases, and all were over 6 m...Do stroke therapies really work?
...al activity. He says that details will only become clearer with more experiments. But Randy Buckner, who studies brain repair at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, says: "These results, while preliminary, are extremely intriguing and suggest a radically different view of recovery from stroke."...Breakthrough! UNC scientists' research promises improved X-ray machines using carbon nanotubes
...Zhou said. "We think our images eventually will be clearer than conventional ones since we have a more pointed, tunable source of electrons. That would help doctors, for example, get more useful information from pictures of broken bones, for example." The physicists are working with manufacturers to turn the...